It started with suffering.

In 2013, not unlike many other sixteen-year-olds, I was no stranger to mental health challenges; namely anxiety, depression, and an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

I was raised Presbyterian. From a young age, I gave Bible readings in church and helped (in the loosest sense of the word, probably) my grandmother teach elementary Sunday School. Now in the face of clinical mental anguish, I went into nature, to a special familial place, and pled with God, Jesus, and the angels to help me overcome this experience - somehow.

Not long after, I had (or was gifted) the courage to share with my parents what I was experiencing, and they set me up with a wonderful therapist who provided invaluable recovery support. And on July 4th of that year, my mother - who had begun taking psychic development classes - lent me a small book about the angelic realm, hoping that perhaps something in it would prove useful or healing for me. Little did she know how much it would ignite.

At age 17, I completed the first training of my newfound path - an angel card reader course with Radleigh Valentine. I was certified, and with much further study in the programs of naturopath Robert Reeves, Charles Virtue, and other notable figures, practiced bringing the meaningful guidance and healing of the angelic and broader spirit realms to myself and others. And at 19, I was invited to begin facilitating message circles (spirit readings performed for a group) to the public in upstate New York.

It was then that I had also discovered the path of shamanism, and begun my formal study of shamanic healing. After a series of advanced trainings, I was accepted into the world-renowned shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman, MA's 9th Two-Year Teacher Training in Shamanic Journeying, Healing, and Medicine for the Earth, which I graduated in 2020.

Now, combining a decade of experience connecting with others, I conduct shamanic spirit readings, healings, and counseling, as well as teach basic and advanced trainings in shamanism and shamanic healing.

I have had the privilege of working with a diverse array of challenges brought by a just-as-diverse array of global clientele. I aim to create an inclusive space in all of my work, including for racial and ethnic minorities and fellow LGBTQ+ people. I have presented on television, radio, and webinar series, and taught in the Midwest and on both coasts of the United States, for library and artistic centers, spiritual stores and healing spaces, private individuals and groups, the Institute for Spiritual Development Washington D.C., and the Free Thinker Institute.

Further, I have had the great honor of assisting celebrated teachers in their own programs. I served as faculty assistant to Radleigh Valentine during his Creating a Magical Life with the Angels workshop at Kripalu in 2019 (I was also once his over-generously-termed Social Media Magician).​ I was later an assistant for Sandra Ingerman’s nine-week course, The Dark Night of the Soul as a Portal to the Shaman's Light (and she and I recorded a video dialogue entitled "Shamanism and the Younger Generations" as a course bonus session). I assisted her Taking Medicine for the Earth Work to Higher Frequencies for the Benefit of our Health and the Planet in 2023, organized an educational and ceremonial reunion of her trained teachers in Taos, and received additional exclusive instruction from her in how to train future teachers to offer their own beginning workshops on shamanic practices. And, I assisted the first week of her 10th and final Two-Year Teacher Training in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing in the deserts of New Mexico - a role during which I trained late-add studentship in how to teach a quality advanced shamanic extraction healing training.

During my membership, I was the youngest instructing member of Ingerman’s global ShamanicTeachers.com alliance.

I emphasize the importance of skilled science, unity-mindedness, and integrative healthcare in my work. I have maintained certification in Adult Mental Health First Aid through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing since 2018, and graduated cum laude with a BA in psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, where I also served as a research assistant and a teacher's assistant administering to two psychology lab courses (which, funny enough, included a classic rudimentary exercise on “testing” psychic ability).

In March of 2025, I relocated to my brilliant new home of Vancouver, Washington with my partner Alexi, who is pursuing his second master’s degree as the John W. Ryan Fellow at the Indiana University O’Niell School of Public and Environmental Affairs. In my spare time, I enjoy playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game against the global community and adding new cards to my collection, sipping homemade chocolate berry smoothies to whatever new show Alexi and I have discovered, hoping desperately that the eastern marmot somehow migrates permanently to the West Coast so that I may snuggle them, and cracking horrendous jokes to my friends that make them immensely relieved that my dream is not to be a successful (or even passable) comedian.

Myself with the current Two-Year Teacher Training class with Sandra Ingerman (April 2025)